BED, BATH AND BEYONCE POSTERS 2010 HOUSING GUIDE PAGE 7 VOLUME XLII, ISSUE XLVIX MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG Dining-Dollar :<5.6+ Exchange to .M[\Q^IT<QKSM\[;WTL7]\ Begin in May Program will allow students to unload leftover meal points. By Ayelet Bitton Associate News Editor Early next month, students will be able to sell any excess dining dollars to their peers as part of a new program erected last week by the Housing, Dining and Hospitality Department. At an April 23 meeting, the Housing and Dining committee voted to approve the exchange program, which will allow students to transfer any desired number of dining dollars from one student account to another for a self-selected price. IN THE From May 3 to June 6, students RES. HALLS will be able to pick up a form from the Hospitality Services % building to request such a trans- 74.1 action. of students have According to HDC too many meal Committee member and PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN points. A.S. President-elect Wafa Ben % Hassine, the program is aimed at 10.5 students who may not be able to Event planner attributes rapid sale of guest tickets — which dried up have overspent. use up their dining dollars at the end of the year. Currently, 74.1 three weeks earlier than expected — to hype over musical lineup. IN THE percent of students living in the www.alumni.ucsd.edu APARTMENTS residence halls have used fewer By Hayley Bisceglia-Martin — are still available on . While of their dining dollars than the News Editor students and faculty buy guest tickets from a pool of % HDC budget schedule recom- 3,200, the Alumni Association normally sets aside 23 mends, while only 10.3 percent his was a bad year to put off buying Sun 300 tickets for its members. of students have have used more. God tickets for your friends. By April 22, Last year, guest tickets didn’t sell out until the " too many meal “It is a good idea because a all 3,500 tickets for the festival had been week of the festival. Associate Vice President of points. lot of students end up leaving the sold — just two and a half weeks after Concerts & Events Alex Bramwell attributes this What Now year with a lot of dining dollars Tthey went on sale. year’s speedy sell-out to increased off-campus hype With little hope 37% left on their plan, and there is Like last year, the tickets could be purchased about the artists performing at this year’s festival of renewed ticket no form of reimbursement,” Ben starting April 5 for $41 each. In order to curb the — including Drake, Michelle Branch, B.o.B. and sales, students are have overspent. Hassine said. “It’s a good route.” number of non-students attending the festival, A.S. DJ Z-Trip. Sixth College committee rep- Concerts & Events maintained the policy that guest “We have the same number, we have the same turning to online resentative Parminder Sandhu said students will be tickets must be purchased by a UCSD student or policy as last year — I guess it was just more excite- scalpers on able to sell their dining dollars for any price agreed employee, with a limit of two tickets per person. ment about the lineup,” Bramwell said. Craigslist and upon by the two parties involved. A small number of alumni tickets — included in Facebook. “All HDH does is move the dining dollars,” he said. a $55 package that offers dinner on RIMAC Field See TICKETSpage 3 See DINING DOLLARSpage 2 );:M[WT]\QWV,ZI_[+ZQ\QKQ[U.ZWU8ZW1[ZIMT/ZW]X[ The resolution was drafted by tem to stop investing in companies being at Berkeley. said that similar resolutions have been Proponents say the members of several campus organi- such as General Electric and United “We really tried to make the bill influential in the past. She referred measure is meant to zations — including Students for Technologies, which supporters of the more universal and clarify that to specifically to an instance when Nelson Justice in Palestine and the Student resolution claim promote violence by uphold the ideals of corporate social Mandela identified the university’s condemn human-rights Sustainability Collective — and providing technology — such as heli- responsibility, we should divest from divestment from South Africa as an violations worldwide. approved by Transfer Senator Adam copters and aircraft engines — to war- U.S. companies that are benefitting important factor in ending the apart- Powers and Campuswide Senator ring countries around the world. from occupancies elsewhere,” Barakat heid reign in that country. By Angela Chen Desiree Prevo. According to Associate Sixth College senior Leena Barakat said. “The bill is really watered down “Of course, the actual decision will News Editor Vice President of Enterprise Operations — who helped draft the resolution from the one at Berkeley, which directly go to the regents, but it is a call to divest Rishi Ghosh — a co-sponsor of the res- — said the UCSD version was altered targeted Israel — but we mention other to show that we are listening and we An A.S. resolution demanding that olution — the council was inspired by a to ensure that it condemned human- areas such as Iran and Morocco. It is understand,” Barakat said. the university stop working with com- similar effort at UC Berkeley, where the rights violations as a whole, and not not anti-Israel.” A.S. 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